[Reason] When It Comes to Policy, Biden and Trump Aren't That Different

Biden policy on tariffs discussed:

"Biden, Democrats Are Locking in Trump's Tariffs":

https://reason.com/2021/03/19/biden-democrats-are-locking-in-trumps-tariffs/

although I will say as a whisky drinker I'm very happy that the Biden administration has lifted the tariff on Scotch single malts

 

"ICE's Fake College Defrauded Students, Then Deported Them. The Biden Admin Is Defending the Scheme":

https://reason.com/2021/03/26/ice-f...n-deported-them-biden-admin-defending-scheme/

excerpt:

In September 2020, many such victims filed a lawsuit in federal claims court. The Trump administration sought to dismiss it. In February, the Biden administration took the same position.

Yet President Joe Biden campaigned on making the U.S. immigration system "humane" again. Perhaps the deepest schism on the 2020 campaign trail between then-candidate Biden and former President Donald Trump was on immigration policy—a division the former repeatedly furnished as proof of his upstanding values. Vice President Kamala Harris was very much in agreement. As a presidential candidate herself, she specifically turned her attention to the Farmington debacle:



How things change. In a motion to dismiss filed February 24, the Biden administration claimed sovereign immunity, a legal doctrine that protects the federal government from certain sorts of lawsuits unless they consent to being sued.

"It might be business as usual to just defend the government, even when the government has done horrible things," says Anna Nathanson, an attorney with the Norris Law Group, who is representing Farmington victims in their class-action suit. "But that's not what's right. That's not what is just. Is that what we can expect from the Biden-Harris administration, this type of abuse of people and the lack of willingness to correct the government's mistakes when the government causes grave harm to people?"

As Shikha Dalmia reported in Reason in 2019, Farmington's operation pulled out all the stops. Its now-defunct website boasted various bachelor's and master's programs, a 10:1 student-faculty ratio, and accreditation by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges. Most importantly, it claimed the university was officially certified by DHS's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)—the stamp of approval that a school is recognized by ICE—leaving people like Suraj little reason to believe that they had applied to a fake college.
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